Quotes About Autonomy

You are the actor, director, producer, and scriptwriter of the play called 'Your Life' and you can change the play anytime.

To be happy you need to take charge of your life by choosing to live in a beautiful state always because others might not have a plan for you.

You can't afford to leave your happiness to others. Create what you wish to experience.

As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion.

They will turn you over, toss you about, fob you off, take you less seriously, because to get there, you must walk on your own feet.

When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish.

It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired.

Wake up and live your life on your own terms, you are a king in your own kingdom, a god in your own universe

Living to please people is like chasing many shadows at the same time!

Stop Blaming. Take responsibility for your thoughts and your actions.

Wealth is defined in many ways, yet freedom might be its best indication.

To take control of your life ... just let go!

We'll all be better off the day we stop letting unhappy, unsuccessful people tell us how to be happy and successful. You already know the way... follow it.

I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind alone…I didn't ever want it to be an equation that amounted to a result coming from my brain plus something else.

It's unwise to be a backseat driver, passenger or bystander in your own life.

There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.

Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him an educational cripple...a pedagogical paraplegic.

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.

There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else's, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.